exactly. my interest only ramped up during the Luke/Rey/Yoda scenes. the rest was rather blah, or just irritated me.

the Canto Blight entire scene to me just stunk of more out of place message peddling with hamfisted storytelling. ESB is great, not denying that. but I actually place R1 right up there with the original trilogy as it expands the entire story in a contained way.

the plot was pretty clear: take the rebel-outlaw daughter of an Imperial weapons engineer to a place they aren’t welcome, to get an audience with a man they are at odds with, to get access to a defector who has information they want/need. that opened up the 2nd half of the story which was to obtain the plans for the…

i kinda wished they’d tried animatronics or stop motion for that entire scene. the cg fx to me were just horrendous....like “the dog in Independence Day jumping away from the explosion” horrendous.

This is one of those cases where a recut completely coalesced into a successful film. I always credited Gareth Edwards but I can see now this was a two parent household.

Agreed. There was a clear problem with competence with Last Jedi. That chase scene during Canto Blight felt like prequel era cg fx overuse. And the choppiness back and forth transitions at times...it hurt to get shuttled back and forth. Rogue One felt smooth and consistent thru out. Its a masterpiece of storytelling…

but no way look how Spielberg’s re-imagining would be creative and timely

They already did

“But if Star Wars are great new movies that are exciting and fresh, and that challenge you and surprise you and make you feel things and engage you the way that those original movies did” - i’m going to stop you right there Rj.

i still don’t get your point, and 100% don’t care.

“...IS BEYOND ME.” How am i projecting my opinions on anyone else, when i used the words clearly stating, this is completely my belief?

I’m with you on this. Rogue One captured the Empire as a massive threat on the cusp of crushing the Rebellion.

Yeah i think SW is over for me, and I’d rather look forward to seeing Boyega as Blue Marvel/Dr Adam Brashear across the hallway at Marvel in the next few years, if the rumor mill is true, he’s already met with them to discuss a super-hero role. (and he’s not up for Blade). The Ultimates is looking better every few…

how anyone could possibly care about anything SW IX is beyond me. I’ve liked all the actors themselves, but I couldn’t care less about Poe, Finn, Kylo, or Rey. Give me that BB-8 & K-2SO 2.0 buddy cop droid movie, and a whole new set of characters I can actually admire pls.

Season 7 of Archer was meh, 8's not much better.

Marshal Stacker Pentecost > Vice Admrl. Holdo

my quick take on it was he’d actually pushed meetings, or didn’t deliver scripts on time, so they shopped actual Deadpool comics writers like Bryan Posehn & Gerry Duggan. Probably cut the costs in half, takes the celebrity out of the equation, and was *on time*

you mean like returning characters to their inherent identities and sidelining the stand ins? what’s worrisome about that, i really don’t see it. how about making *new original characters* who don’t have to cosplay in the iconic one’s books to be interesting?

sorry but while I’ve loved the Dauterman art, the Aaron story hasn’t been my kit & kabooble.

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